Child of North Carolina. Journalism, pre- and post-Internet. Film student, Ingrid Bergman pictures. Social science, quantitative and qualitative methods. Fell in love with Chapel Hill. Knight Foundation, planning & evaluation. Blank Family Foundation, lots of things in Georgia and Montana. John Templeton Foundation, funding research around the world. Over quarter-century, part of teams awarding and monitoring $1 billion in grants. 2020, COVID ended 28 years of marriage to Betsy Ross Bare. Current loves, Isadora and Winston, rescue dogs who rescue me. Writer: stories, poems, also novels and lyrics for Lassie James Mystery Series, including 2021’s Fair-Skinned Brunette with the Porcelain Shine novel & “Lassie James Songbook Vol I” album, 2024’s My Biscuit Baby novel & “My Biscuit Baby: The Lost Springfest Tapes” album. Photographer, last century and this one. Visual artist: clay, metal, fiber, wax, acrylic paint. English teacher Mom. Math teacher Dad. Sisters, one older, one younger, both smarter. Previous experience: driving school bus, planting peach orchard, jury selection consultant, janitor. Taste for genmaicha tea, bow ties, biscuits, whiskey.